Use getent to Display LUM Users On a Linux Workstation

Linux User Management (LUM) allows Linux users to be created, managed, and authenticated using eDirectory. Managing LUM users is usually accomplished in iManager or by using the nam commands from the command line (namuseradd, etc).

It is often useful to know what users can currently access a workstation. One option is to use namuserlist. For example, running namuserlist with the context o=novell yields the following:

The only limitation with namuserlist is needing to know the context to look for user objects. namuserlist also only lists the users in eDirectory. The command getent will display all the local and eDirectory users the system knows about.